First Baptist Church Ingersoll
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Established 1858
We are a worshipping community empowered by the Holy Spirit to share Christ with everyone.
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Sundays, 10:30 am
Worship Live, In-person in our Sanctuary & On-line

Mission & What we Believe

Mission Statement

"We are a worshipping community, empowered by the Holy Spirit, to share Christ with everyone."

What we Believe

  • We are passionate about experiencing God.
  • We believe Jesus to be the Son of God, fully human and fully divine.
  • It is through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ that we have received new life.
  • We have been forgiven and made whole.
  • We believe in loving our neighbor as we serve our community.

 

    Illustration of coherence of precepts in the Bible, our Scripture:

    Visualization Project: Visualizing the Bible © Chris Harrison

    Chris is the Habermann Chair and an Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. He directs the Future Interfaces Group, broadly investigating novel sensing technologies and interaction techniques, especially those that empower people to interact with “small devices in big ways.”

    Christoph Römhild sent Chris his interesting biblical cross-references data set. This led to the first of three visualizations. Intrigued by the complexity of the Bible, Chris derived a new data set by parsing the King James Bible and extracting people and places. One of the resulting visualizations is a biblical social network. The other visualization shows how people and places are distributed throughout the text.

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